The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Equiano, Olaudah / Costanzo, Angelo The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for those that followed.